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IUNITED STATES PATENT or-FlcE DISPLAY Box Raymond E. Fink, East Haven, Conn., assigner to NationalFolding Box Company, New Haven, Conn., a corporation of New Jersey Application February 25, 1944, Serial No. 523,922

2 Claims. (Cl. 20G-44) ing detailed description and the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. l is a perspective view of a preferred form of the invention, illustrating the container in display position.` In thisinstance a wrist watch and its wrist band are shown on display thereon.

Desirably, a container embodying the instant invention is designed to be positioned to rest upon its normal openside, the closure panel in this instance sewing as the base of the display assembly, the display panel extending from the outer edge of the closure panel. To e'ect display of the contained crude, the body of the container is elevated by turning movement about its hinge with the closure panel, thevdisplay panel being rotated outwardly to afford display of the article of merchandise, the body of the container being thus held in elevated position. To insure V effectual retention of the body of the container in suitable elevated position, it is desirable to dimension the closure panel to extend laterally of the body of the container whereby the closure panel is brought to rest when it is moved to its closing position relative to the body of the container and to dimension the display panel at its free edge but slightly less than the parallel dimension of the interior of the container, whereby the display pmel makes a. friction t with the innerfaces of the end panels of the container at the stages when the container is placed in display posiiton, i. e. when resting upon its closure panel and when the container is in closed position, at which latter stage the friction between the display panel and the inner faces of the end panels of the container functions to suspend the article of merchandise above the bottom panel ofthe container.

For containers embodying the invention and designed for the display of looped articles, the

with notches to receive the loop material. For

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the embodiment sihown in Fig. 1, illustrated in its closed posit on.

Fig. 3 is a plan of a preferred form of blank, showing one manner of constructing fthe container of integral material such as Apaperboard or like yieldable sheet material.

Fig. 4 is a detail transverse sectional view on line 4-4 of Fig. 2. v

Fig. 5 is a detail longitudinal sectional view on line 5 -5 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawing: The container proper indicated generally I0 may be of any desired assembly of construction. Specically as illustrated the container I0 hasl its end and front and rear panels and its remaining closed side formed of a single blank in whichl the concerned panels are hingedly related to one another and set-up into position by folding and overlapping, Without requirement of gluing. If preferred the container may be secured in seteup status by gluing pursuant to any conventional procedure.

As illustrated in the preferred embodment shown in the drawings, the container i0 is provided with a closure panel il hingedly connected to the free edge of a side panel of the container I0, proper, and preferably integral with the material ofsuchpanel.

Associated with such closure panel il and f preferably integral with the material thereof,

there is provided the display panel l2 serving to support, in suitable display position, an article containers for the display of jewelry, the dis- .F

play panel may be provided with a blanked-out tongue or sets of tongues or the like, for receiving thereon or therebetween the jewelry or like article to be displayed.

Further features and objects of the invention will be more fully understood from the followofmerchandise.

As specifically indicated in Vthe drawing, a watch I3 is attached to a wrist band I4 and held in display position by the provision of the oppositely disposed notches I5, I5 formed at the opposite lateral edges of the display panel I2.

In lieu of such notches l5, I5, or equivalent. the material of the display panel l2 may be blanked to form one or more tongues i9, or other suitable means provided, for holding in display position one or more articles of jewelry or the like.

The blank designated generally I6, shown in Fig. 3, illustrates one manner of manufacturing embodiments of the invention from a single sheet of material, such as paper-board or like' yieldable sheet material. The blank includes the closurepanel .II hinged by the score line I7 to the side panel Illa of the container I0, also the display panel I2 hingedly connected with the closure panel II. The display panel I2 is illustrated as provided with a set of tongues I9, say', blanked from the material thereof, for positioning therebetween suitable articles of merchandise, such as jewelry.

As above indicated, and as illustrated in the drawing, the display panel is dimensioned in the the direction parallel to its line of hinge with the closure panel but slightly less than the parallel dimension of the interior of the container, whereby the display panel makes a friction ilt with the inner faces of the end panels of the container at the stages of display of the article of merchandise, as is illustrated in Fig, 1, and when the closure panel is moved to its closing position, as is illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5, at which latter stage the friction between the display panel and the inner faces of the end panels of the container tends to suspend the display panel and therewith the article of merchandise supported thereby out of contact with the bottom panel of the container, in protection of the article of merchandise against possible shocks.

Preferably, the closure panel II has a dimension in the direction parallel to its hinged ccnnection with the display panel I2 exceeding the parallel dimension of the interior of the container, thereby providing one or more extensions or flanges IIa, see Figs. 2 and 5 at one lateral edge or'both lateral edges of the closure panel,

whereby the free edges of the lateral sides of the container serve to limit the movement of the closure panel thereat, thus precluding the entry of the closure panel within the interior of the container proper.

The remainder of the blank forms no essential part of the invention. in that the body of the container proper may be constituted as preferred pursuant to conventional procedure, including the glued types as well as frictonally set-up types. n

said container being formed wholly of integral, yieldable sheet material and comprising a container proper having an open side; a closure panel for such open side hingedly connected to an edge of a certain panel of the container proper, said closure panel having a dimension parallel to the direction of its stated hinge greater than the parallel dimension of the interior of the container proper whereby said closure panel extends laterally at its opposite lateral end portions beyond the end panels of the container; and a display panel hingedly connected to the outer edge of said closure panel parallel to the line of the stated hinge of said closure panel with the said certain panel of the container proper, said display panel being dimensioned in direction parallel to the direction of its line of hinging with said closure panel slightly less than the parallel dimension of the interior of the container proper to eiect frictional engagement with the inner faces of the stated end panels of the container proper, whereby said display panel is frictionally held in display position at the stage when the container as an entirety rests upon its said closure panel and whereby said display panel is held in suspended position interiorly of the container proper when said closure panel is moved to its closed positioned in engagement with the free edges of the panels of the container proper.

2. A blank of integral yieldable sheet material for forming a container for the display of an article of merchandise, comprising a central rectangular panel; four rectangular panels respectively hingedly connected at the margins of said central rectangular panel, two of said four' rectangular panels hinged laterally to said central rectangular panel, serving as end panels of the container when set up, the remaining two of said four rectangular panels serving as side panels of the container when set'l up; a panel hingedly connected to an edge of one of said side panels which edge is parallel to its line of hinging with saidcentral panel and serving as a closure panel for the container when set up, said closure panel being dimensioned to extend at its opposite lateral edges beyond the line of its said hinging; and a panel serving as a display panel hingedly connected to said closure panel at its margin parallelto its line of hinging with said side panel, said display panel being dimensioned in the direction parallel to its line of hinging with said closure panel less than but within range of frictional fit with the inner faces of said end panels of the container when the container is in display position and in closed position.

RAYMOND E. FINK. 

